Calamities of exile
Subtitle: three nonfiction novellas
By: Lawrence Weschler.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 199
Subjects: Makiya, Kanan; Kavan, Jan, 1946-; Breytenbach, Breyten; Political activists -- Biography
Description: The three narratives by Lawrence Weschler here joined together were conceived from the start as a sort of triptych: three tales about basically decent expatriates (the first an Iraqi, the second a Czech, the third an Afrikaner), each of whom tries to do the right thing with regard to the totalitarian regime holding sway over his homeland - the thing we readers, too, might have done, if only we were much more courageous than we are - only to end up thoroughly wracked and bollixed.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Oedipus in Samara; title: The trials of Jan K.; title: A horrible face, but one's own.